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Quotations regarding 'Tests'

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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
M. H. Abrams, Critic (1912-  )
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer (1930-  )
I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.
Ralph Allen, British Politician
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
Walter Annenberg, American Businessman (1908-2002)
Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.
Michael Baden, American Celebrity
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
Walther Bothe, German Physicist (1891-1957)
I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson, British Businessman (1950-  )
The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.
John Sherman Cooper, American Politician (1901-1991)
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
David Deutsch, Scientist
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist (1850-1909)
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President (1890-1969)
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin, American Politician (1896-1985)
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
Suzanne Farrell, American Dancer (1945-  )
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Peggy Fleming, American Athlete (1948-  )
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster, English Novelist (1879-1970)
I was molded, spent my time underneath a lot of goo. And then the bits and pieces were sculpted. It took probably 10 days to create each character after all those camera tests.
Brendan Fraser, American Actor (1968-  )
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
Bill Frist, American Politician (1952-  )
There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.
Teri Garr, American Actress (1944-  )
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow, -
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